Clinton scores over critics
A US appeals court ruled it could forward the North American Free Trade Agreement to Congress without an environmental impact statement.
No takers for clean technology
Developers of a new, clean and efficient process for coal-based power generation say it will not become popular unless the government enforces …
India didn’t need to let power producers emit more of deadly oxides of nitrogen; here’s why
Limiting NOx emission at 300 mg / Nm3 is doable, claims Finnish state-owned Fortum Oyj; Environment ministry relaxed norms to 450 mg / Nm3 in October
India, Indonesia, Bangladesh & Vietnam host to most under-construction coal projects worldwide: Report
Building new unabated coal power plants must stop to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, according to analysis
Stubble burning crisis: Why thermal power plants in Delhi-NCR have been slow in adopting biomass co-firing
Only three plants have reported higher quantities of biomass co-firing since December 2022 till August 2023
Power plant resurrected
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Lights out in Hong Kong to protest polluted air
Wealthiest oil producing countries must phase out oil and gas by 2034, poorest by 2050
The world will exhaust the carbon budget for 1.5°C warming in a decade at current rate of emissions
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (April 28, 2023)
Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal
Fly ash dyke breach in Singrauli points to a bigger problem of fly ash disposal
Two people have died as a result of the breach in the fly ash dyke of Reliance’s Sasan Ultra Mega Power Project in Singrauli
‘It is not just a nuclear risk, but a climate risk’
Jan Haverkamp, a nuclear expert of Greenpeace (Central and Eastern Europe), spoke to Down To Earth on about Akademik Lomonosov — the first …
Tepco to decommission plant close to one damaged in 2011
The Fukushima Daini plant located 12 kilometres away from the Daiichi plant, had escaped damage in the 2011 quake and tsunami
Breathless silence
The inconvenient truth is that when there is a public health emergency in Delhi, only the poor are asked to sacrifice
India has three of the world’s 50 nitrogen emission hotspots
The latest Greenpeace analysis finds areas in Delhi-NCR, UP, MP and Odisha as the biggest contributors of nitrogen pollution in India
Nuclear's unclear leap
Is India's failure to bag foreign reactors the real reason behind its announcement to set up 10 nuclear plants on its own?
Doomed tomb
The future of the Taj Mahal is once again at stake because, the environment-versus-industry debate notwithstanding, pollution levels in Agra are …
Experts flag dilution of NOx emission limit for coal-fired power stations
The SC on July 8 relaxed limits for coal-fired power stations commissioned between December 2003 and 2016 — to 450 mg / Nm3 from 300&…
Thermal power plants in Singrauli, Sonbhadra under NGT radar again
In July 14, 2020 order, the tribunal orders remedial action against thermal power plants; directs NTPC Vindhyachal to pay Rs 10 cr in …
Energy in news on May 4
Here’s a round-up of today’s news reports and debates on energy
Power problems
Gasping on flyash
Burgeoning flyash dumps in Kolaghat spread silicosis
Food for thought
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